Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-04-16
TREGo COUNTY.

the interests of our own county are apt
tc suffer from partial neglect.
The World wishes nobody to settle
in Western Kansas against his Will. But
Immigrants, on their own volition, are
hocking into western Kansas in large
numbers. 1t is only fair to assume that
these people wish to locate IN the most
desirable locality. This proposition
opens up the question of what constitutes
the most desirable locality. Heretofore,
we confess to knowing, the most desir-
able locality in western Kansas has been
the one where land could be obtained for
the least outlay of money.
A little sober thought viii teach any
person who is capable of reasoning that
this supposition is fallactious in twenty
four cases where it is sound in one. In
this position, we are backed by many in
disputable facts. Generally, when per-
son obtains farm land at merely NOM
inal cost, there are various drawbacks in
the way of the land being worked prof
itably. These drawbacks, we submit,
oftener than otherwise dictate that the
man who obtains this land could have
made money by buying farm land near
some railroad station, even if his circum-
stances compelled him to purchase on
the installment plan. In other words,
what use has man for farm land from
which he can make no money? Is he
after a mere existence? He could find
that in a mountain fastness, and be
spared years of toll! Wheat, corn and
the general run of farm products should
not be grown in this portion of the west
for direct sale in the market. They
should be fed to stock, and thus enable
double profit to be reaped. But some
people are determined to follow straight
farming. 1t is to these we are talking
There is hardly a product of the farm
which will bear hauling, with profit,
twenty, thirty or forty miles to railroad
station. To station involving haul of
only mile or few miles, the producer
has saved the time and labor necessary to
the long haul. Time is money; SO is Ia
Dor. 1t pays to be in thrifty communi-
ty. In county through which rail-
road runs, times, if not always good, are
better, as rule, than they are in coun-
ties. which are destitute of railroad facili-
ties. When times are generally good,
the railroad community booms above the
of-the-railroad community. When times
are generally dull, people in the railroad
community are assisted by having a near
market for salable commodities and by a
portion of them being furnished employ
ment by the railroad company.
School houses are built with difficulty
in many localities distant from railroad.
In a county through which railroad
runs very large proportion of the peo-
pie are assisted by the taxes of the COM
pany in building their school houses
Where school houses abound the
church and society are either present or
on the way.
In Trego county magnificent railroad,
handy markets., school houses, churches
and the best of society are to be found.
The past activity to obtain cheap lands
has led many to go further west, and fare
worse than they would have Jared by
stopping in Trego county. Lands in
this county are cheaper this spring than
they are in any county Immediately ad-
joining this, with the possible exception
of Cove. Indeed, lands are not held at
higher prices in Trego county than they
are In localities hundred miles to the
west OF this. This county was partially
settled during the agricultural crisis from
1879 to 1884. In the very nature of
things, it has one less crisis to pass
through in reaching the state of agricul-
tural safety than have those counties
which were not settled until subsequently
to 1884. This is an exceedingly i'm
portant point. We state unhesitating1y,
with an extensive knowledge of Kansas,
that, there is not in the whole state
another county which takes rank with
Trego in the matter of Offering induce
ments to thrifty immigration. Her lands
are rich. Her territory is fairly watered
by three streams flowing through the
county from west to east, not to mention
an infnitude of living water courses trib-
utary to these.
The names of our land agents will be
found in the advertising columns of the
World. Write to any of them. You
will be treated nicely and offered bar
gains.
NO SPITE WORK.